8. Who was Hepzibah Andrews, who married Lt. Abraham Howe of Ipswich in 1712, and died there April 13, 1753?

C.

The Ancestral Chart Co., 670 Centre St., Jamaica Plain, Mass., has issued a compact, simple and ornamental singlesheet ancestral chart.

THE JOHN ROGERS FAMILIES IN PLYMOUTH AND VICINITY. By Josiah H. Drummond. Paper; 26 pages. Portland, Me., 1896. This pamphlet is the result of an attempt to distinguish the several men in Plymouth and vicinity bearing the name of John Rogers.

THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL REGISTER, for October,

1896, contains, among its many articles, an autobiographical sketch of Hon. Na9. Who was Catherine than Read of Beverly and Salem in the Robert Coker of Newbury? She died Bowditch family of Salem. last century, and an article on the early there May 2, 1678.

Salem.

10.

wife of

S. P.

Who was Sally Coes, who married Moses Guilford in Danvers Nov. 12 1778?

The city of Beverly has printed the petition for its incorporation as a town, the of the colony and province of Massachuact of incorporation, the special statutes setts Bay and of the State relating to Beverly, the Indian deed of the town, and the records of the town meetings from 1665 to 1675.

GENEALOGY AND HISTORY OF A PART OF

THE NEWBURY-ADAMS FAMILY, formerly of
Devonshire, England, being the descen-

dants of Robert Adams and wife Eleanor,
who were in Ipswich, Mass., in 1635, and
in Newbury in 1640. By Smith Adams
of Milltown, Maine. Paper; 61 pages.
Calais, Me., 1895. This is a valuable

The following named families held con-
ventions in Essex County the past year, pamphlet.
at the places and on the dates stated:
Peabody, at Clifton Heights, July 18.
Nurse, at Danvers, July 30.
Needham, at Peabody, Aug. 12.
Bailey-Bayley, at Rowley, Aug. 19.
Spofford, at Groveland, Aug. 26.
Poor-Poore, at Haverhill, Sept. 2.
Tyler, at North Andover, Sept. 2.

NEW PUBLICATIONS.

A LIST OF GENEALOGIES BEING COMPILED has been issued in a twenty-four page pamphlet by Seymour Morris. Chicago, 1896.

A GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF THE HARWOOD FAMILIES DESCENDED FROM ANDREW HARWOOD, WHO WAS BORN IN ENGLAND, AND RESIDED IN BOSTON, MASS. By Watson H. Harwood. Illustrated; 12mo.; 2d ed.; 100 pages; cloth. Price, $2.50. Chasm Falls, N.Y., 1896. The title fully describes the work. The illustrations consist of 28 family portraits in fine half-tone. Dr. Harwood has also included some interest

ing biographical matter. He is still seeking to find the parentage and birthplace in England of the ancestor, Andrew Har

wood.

The Essex Antiquarian

An Illustrated Monthly Magazine devoted to the History,
Biography, Genealogy, and Antiquities of

Essex County, Massachusetts.

Essex County is the most historic county in America, and the parent of hundreds of towns and cities in various sections of the United States and British Provinces. Its settlement began in 1623, and all of its towns and cities were settled in that century.

The principal object of this magazine is to preserve the history and genealogy of the county and to bring into ready use the records which are unindexed and almost inaccessible, those that are in private as well as public custody. These include admissions to and dismissions from the churches, baptisms, births, marriages, deaths, intentions of marriages, gravestone inscriptions, old newspaper news-items, advertisements and obituary notices, parish records and tax lists, town-meeting records and tax lists, probate records and original wills and other papers on file, deeds, civil and criminal court records, proprietors' records, colonial, provincial, and state records, Revolutionary and other soldiers' muster rolls, etc., Bible records, account books, old letters, commissions, interleaved almanacs, diaries, journals, etc. Seven-eighths of the public records are not indexed, and none of them have complete indexes of names. A vast amount of hidden historical and genealogical material is thus brought into ready use.

The literary portion of the magazine will consist of biographies, genealogies, sketches of local history, churches and old homesteads, of early commerce, education and industries, ancient customs, etc.

The illustrations will consist of houses, churches, maps, portraits, autographs, coats-of-arms, gravestones, ancient furniture, articles of domestic use, apparel, etc.

The material which the editor has been for twenty years collecting for a genealogical dictionary of the county, down to the year 1800, is being published in the form of genealogies. It includes the Ipswich Hammatt Papers and the Essex County part of Savage's Genealogical Dictionary.

The early wills of the county are also being printed, verbatim et literatim, in the order of their probate.

The records of old Norfolk County, which existed from 1643 to 1679, and included all towns north of the Merrimac River at that period, will be published. The towns of Dover, Portsmouth, Exeter, Hampton, etc., were then included in that county. The records consist of births, marriages, deaths, deeds, wills, inventories, etc., and have been almost inaccessible and their existence known but to few.

The support and co-operation of every person is needed, by subscription as well as general interest.

Address THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN,

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The New England

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NONTAINS a variety of valuable and interesting matter concerning the History, Antiquities, Genealogy and Biography of America. It was commenced in 1847 (Volume 51 begins January, 1897), and it is the oldest historical periodical now published in this country. It is issued quarterly (each number containing at least 96 octavo pages, with a portrait on steel) by the New England Historic Genealogical Society. $3.00 per annum, in advance. Single numbers, 75 cents. can afford to be without it, and every genealogist finds matter of interest in each number. Address, B. B. TORREY, TREASURER,

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Old Almanacs.

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Historic Storms of New England.

By Sidney Perley. Cloth; 8vo; 341 pages. Price, postpaid, $1.64. Salem, 1891.

In this volume is entertainingly given accounts of the gales, hurricanes, tornadoes, great snow storms, rains, freshets, floods, droughts, cold winters, hot summers, avalanches, earthquakes, dark days, comets, auroras, phenomena in the heavens, and wrecks along the coast, with accompanying incidents, pathetic and amusing, that have been witnessed by the successive generations of dwellers in this section of the country.

The Poets of Essex County, Mass.

By Sidney Perley. Cloth; 214 pages. Price, $1.25. Salem, 1889.

The volume contains complete and interesting biographical sketches of James Berry Bensel, Anne Bradstreet, R. S. Coffin, S. W. Foss, William Lloyd Garrison, Lucy Larcom, Alonzo Lewis, Martha Perry Lowe, George Lunt, Henry Pickering, John Peirpoint, Albert Pike, Epes Sargent, Harriet Prescott Spofford, W. W. Story, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William B. Tappan, Jones Very, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, John G. Whittier, William Winter, and fifty others, with selections from their writings. One hundred and twenty-six other poets of the County are also included.

Giving the days of the week and the days of the month from 1600 to 1900. By Sidney Perley. Salem, 1890. Price, 25 cents.